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Parliament on Thursday approved an amendment to the Finance Bill 2018 that suspended the implementation of 16 per cent VAT on fuel, which was to take effect yesterday and would have taken the price of petrol to the Sh130 mark.
But since then, there have been discordant voices on Parliament’s move, foremost said to emanate from the man in charge of the National Treasury, Henry Rotich, and yesterday the Kenya Revenue Authority, the agency mandated to collect our taxes.
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